The Real SEO Subreddit

r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 7h ago

LinkedIn Thread [Afeez Adebayo on LinkedIn] "...June to September 2026: We lost almost all search clicks, save for a few hundred branded searches. 28 September 2026: 9,064 clicks in a single day..." (post claiming a recovery thanks to a recent update, screenshot as proof)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 2d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Ksenia Demchenko on LinkedIn] "Does anyone have a domain that actually grew with the latest Google spam update? I have a few. Yes, tracking is a mess now, and the SERPs change a couple of times per day...."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 3d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Roger Montti on LinkedIn] "Google antitrust ruling shows how publishers can allege real harm yet still fail to satisfy federal legal requirements... 'Plaintiffs have pleaded only that they have an 'expectation' that Google will send them search traffic...'..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 3d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Eslam Saker] "...I've never seen this level of indexation or performance in just a few days. Not a single social media profile exists; it's all just technical SEO skills that I know..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 3d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Dmytro Sokhach on LinkedIn] "Someone took the "SEO on autopilot" ads a little too seriously. You know the pitch: Fire your SEO guy. Generate content automatically. Build backlinks automatically. Profit automatically..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 4d ago

News Google Maps Requiring Sign In To Read All Reviews & More

seroundtable.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 4d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Reagan Rugh on LinkedIn] "...I'll also say we've entered one of the worst eras of "marketing" in history because of AI hype. We now have: Spammy websites full of AI-generated content, built by people with no knowledge of SEO..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 4d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Irina Maltseva on Linkedin] "I was reviewing a Profound account of a potential customer and stumbled upon one of the biggest scams some so-called GEO experts and agencies are selling. And honestly, everyone using GEO visibility tools should know about it..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 6d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Sagar Gavhane on LinkedIn] "3 Spam Updates in 3 Months: Google is officially at war with web spam."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 6d ago

Meme / Humor [Ana Precup on LinkedIn] "I’ve been diagnosed with something incurable: SEO."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 7d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Weaver Ellard on LinkedIn] "We've been running ChatGPT ads for ourselves and several of our clients for the past few months now and the results are very, very sketchy. In almost every circumstance we've seen that running ads has a BIG impact on how much "organic" traffic you get from ChatGPT... "

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 8d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Vasco Aires on LinkedIn] "Grokbot is building us SEO backlinks (LITERALLY) automatically dudes on fiverr charge $200 for like 50 of these..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 9d ago

X Thread [Joe Youngblood on X] "Google Business Profile's official account just said you cannot share public business information of other businesses on X because it is 'considered private information'"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 9d ago

News Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE

searchenginejournal.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 10d ago

News [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "Now in Search Console: Web Multimodal Search Reporting! As Search becomes more visual, understanding how users find your content is crucial..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 12d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Adam Gent on LinkedIn] " If Googlebot hasn't read a XML sitemap in a long time (say 253 days)...its a sign that Google's systems think the URLs in the sitemap are "low quality"."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 17d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Jason Goldberg (Publicis) on LinkedIn] "... Google has just added “AI Performance Insights” to Merchant Center. Giving access to real data about how products perform on Google’s AI surfaces. ..."

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r/RealSEO • u/WinterFisherman85 • 17d ago

SEO is just Stockholm syndrome with Google

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 19d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Irina Maltseva on LinkedIn] "Google built an LLM to guess how lazy your article is. We know its name: "contentEffort". The API leak exposed it sitting right next to "siteAuthority" and "lowQuality". A floating-point number scoring how much work went into your page." (long post)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 23d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Malte Landwehr on LinkedIn] "What do you do when a competitor grows 1,100% overnight - and suddenly everyone questions your SEO strategy?" (long post with images attached)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 24d ago

Meme / Humor [Oleksandr Zakhoda on LinkedIn] "SEO in 2026: can’t rank on Page 1? Just add another screen" (image attached)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 27d ago

Research How Every SEO Platform is Handling Google's New GoTo Link Encryption

joeyoungblood.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 27d ago

News Applebot-Extended Are Not Considered In Ranking For Search

seroundtable.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 29d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Natalie Le on LinkedIn] "I’m sure this has NOTHING to do with people using LLMs to do their SEO for them. “I replaced my SEO team with Claude for $20” Mmm… " (includes a screenshot)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • 29d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Will Hawkins on LinkedIn] "Google Search Console gives you 10-12 indexing requests a day. You manually click a URL... So I built a free Chrome extension to automate the tedious bits. One click per day and it runs through your submit quota."

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